Saw a post without noticing the community and commented a genuine comment with good intentions.

Apparently it was against the rules of that community and I was banned.

Original post:

My (removed) comment:

And yeah, the last comment was sarcasm.

I just don’t really understand why is there a community for shitting on Linux? Like I can get not liking it, and hating the Linux die hard fans, but it really is an amazing thing that is integral to almost all modern computing… Kind of like hating social media by having a facebook page for it.

  • @[email protected]
    14•1 month ago

    For this exact reason i feel the fediverse should operate on #hashtags and the user should subscribe to their mods who will mark content for exclusion and filtration.

    Meaning that instead of a ultimatum users can participate regardless of if bad mods ruin a community as per reddit /r/linux being ruined by loco mods.

    This fiefdom format where topics are arbitrated and drum headded by fief lords is archaic and antiquated.

    When the wrong man uses the right means, then the right means work in the wrong way.

    Its our job to create systems that prevent this as much as possible through good design.

    • WilfordGrimleyEnglish
      6•1 month ago

      That’s how aether works kind of.

      It’s P2P/decentralised rather than federated.

      Anyone can make a community. With enough participation in a community one can become a mod. Mods can be impeached by vote of active participants.

      Anyone can see nod actions and anyone can decide to disable the actions of any mod.

      I love the system, I was active there before moving to Lemmy. I wish it had taken off/absorbed some of the Reddit fallout rather than Lemmy.

      AFAIK it is not maintained or at least updated much less frequently than Lemmy/ActivityPub.